101 Things to Do in LA: Pageant of the Masters

One after another, life-sized replicas of paintings and sculptures appear on the stage of Pageant of the Masters as a narrator describes highlights from three centuries of art. The audience members, many wrapped in blankets or peering through binoculars, are rapt, unable to blink because they'll miss one of the few seconds each piece is displayed. That's what they have in common with the actors: they can't blink either, because they're pretending to be two-dimensional.

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